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Lamar News January 21, 1886

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THE LAMAR NEWS 

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor          VERNON, ALABAMA, JANUARY 21, 
1886          VOL. III. NO. 12

CHRISTMAS CHIMES
The meadows are brown, the hills are all bare,
And up through the valley the clear, crisp air
Is singing a Christmas song.
Like the song of the sea in the purple shell,
If we list to its notes it will sweetly tell
The secret it’s kept so long.

It tells of a time so sunny and fair
When we watched the clouds of the snowy air
For the reindeer’s tiny form.
And saw in our dreams such pictures of light,
As we lay through the hours of the long, dark night,
Away from the clouds and storm.

Such pictures as glow in fairy tales
Then told at the hour that daylight
And the crimson west grows gray,
When we list for the chime of tiny bells
That are hung in the shade of haunted dells
And are rung by goblins and fay.

It rings on the heart a tearful change
Of a darkened time, so sad, so strange,
When our dreams had lost their light.
Its whispers and sings to the leafless trees
Our secret that sighs in every breeze
Till the day wears into the night.

O, Christmas chines!  Ye are merry and sad,
We wound the heart and ye make it glad.
With the music your ringing makes;
And the weary heart that has dreamed so long
Takes up the thread of the broken song
And sings till it, quivering, breaks.

THE RED LIGHT – A CHRISTMAS STORY – [by Amy Randolph]
	It was Christmas Eve.
	Not one of the ideal Christmas Eves of poets and romance writers, 
wherein the moon is always at the full, the snow always a-sparkle like 
pulverized diamonds, and the air always still and bold and clear, but a story 
twilight, with the snow driving steadily from the east, the wind raw and 
biting, and the sky – what you could see of it – black as ink.
	But it was Christmas Ever, all the same, and Bertha Hooper’s cheeks 
were as red as the bitter-sweet berries in the woods as she sat, all wrapped 
up, in the train that was steaming northward, on her way to spend Christmas 
with her Aunt Almira Higgins.
	Christmas in the country!  To Bertha, who had lived all her life in 
the brick walls and stone pavements of a city, the very words seemed to convey 
somewhat of cheer and joyousness.  And Bertha, as she sat with her eyes closed 
and her little gloved hands safely nestled into a gray squirrel muff, beheld 
in her mind’s eyes great fires of logs roaring up wide-throated chimneys, 
walls festooned with hemlock boughs and black green tufts of mistletoe; and 
she had half composed a poem on Christmas and its cherished associations when 
the ruthless conductor came along for her ticket.
	“How far are we from Montcourt station?” she inquired, as she gave up 
the bit of pasteboard.
	“Next but one, Miss,” said the man, as he hurried on, with his lantern 
under his arm.  “Half an hour yet.”
	She had never been so far from New York in all her life before.  The 
driving rain in which she had left her home had changed as they progressed 
northward into the steady fall of snow, which fluttered around them like a 
white waving shroud.  But Bertha Hooper cared little for this.  Had not Aunt 
Almira promised to send Zebedee, her youngest son, to the station with the 
pony to meet her on the arrival of the six-forty train from New York?  And was 
not Zebedee to have a lantern with a red glass door to it, so she could 
identify him at once?
	She was very pretty as she sat in little black velvet toque, with its 
cur ling plume of cardinal red and the wine-red ribbon bow at her throat – 
pretty with the bloom and freshness of eighteen.  She was dark, with large 
hazel eyes, almond-shaped and long-lashed, a clear, rosy bloom on either 
check, and wavy dark hair hanging in silken fringe over her broad, low 
forehead.
	“Mont – Court – station!” bawled the breakman, putting in a snow-
powdered fur cap, and withdrawing it again as quickly as if he had been a 
magnified edition of the Jack-in-the-box, which children much rejoices at in 
holiday time.  And Bertha Hooper knew that she had reached her destination.
	Stiff and cramped from the length of time in which she had been 
sitting in one position she rose up, with a little steel clasped traveling bag 
in one hand and a dainty silk umbrella in the other, and made her way to the 
door.
	All she could see when she stepped out upon the wet and slippery 
platform was a blur of driving snow, through which the lights of the solitary 
little country depot gleamed fitfully’ but the next instant something flashed 
athwart her vision like a friendly red eye – and beneath the reflector over 
the station door she saw a tall fine-looking young man, in a fur trimmed 
overcoat, a seal-skin cap set jauntily on one side of a crop of chestnut cu 
rls, and a red-lighted lantern swinging from his left hand, as he stood 
straining his eyes in the stormy darkness, as if to catch sight of some 
familiar face in the little crowd.
	“Cousin Zebedee!” cried Bertha, aloud, and she made one spring into 
the arms of this blonde-whiskered young giant.  For had not she and Zebedee 
played dominoes and fox-and-geese together, in the days when she wore blue 
ribbon sashes, and his hair was a closely-shorn mat of carroty-red?
	“Oh, Cousin Zebedee, I’m so glad to see you; and I hadn’t any idea you 
had grown half so handsome!”
	And she gave him a great hug, at the same time holding up her rosebud 
lips for a kiss.
	But, to her infinite amazement, the hero of the sealskin cap seemed a 
little backward in responding to her cousinly advances.
	“I – I beg your pardon,” said he, slightly receding, “but I’m afraid 
there is some mistake.  My name is not Zebedee and the lady for whom I am 
looking is some years older than you.”
	Bertha Hooper started back coloring and confused, and as she did so, a 
fat comfortable looking old lady came trundling along the platform in an India 
shawl and a boa of Russia sable worth its worth in greenbacks.
	“Charlie!” she cried, “I thought I never should find you.  Is the 
carriage here?”
	“All here and waiting, Aunt Effie,” responded the young man; but her 
still hesitated a second as Bertha Hooper stood with averted face and 
motionless figure in the shadow of the building.
	“Can I be of any service to you?” he asked.  “If you are expecting 
friends who have failed to meet you - .”
	“Anybody here by the name of Bertha Hoo-ooper?” shouted a stentorian 
voice, and a tall, raw-looking lad with a lantern – also lighted with red 
glass – rushed shuffling around the corner.
	Zebedee himself!  Red-haired and shambling and awkward as he had been 
in the old fox-and-geese days.
	“Oh!” said he, catching up his lantern so that the scarlet bird’s 
wings flashed out like a spit of flame – scarcely more scarlet, alas, than 
Bertha’s own face.  “Here you be!  I’m a little late, for the roads is so all-
fired bad, and I couldn’t start the pony out of a walk.  Come on.  how de do?  
Be you very cold?”
	“Zebedee” said Bertha, clinging almost hysterically to her cousin’s 
arm, “who’s that young gentleman with – with the other lantern?”
	“Eh!” said Zebedee.  “That feller with the old lady in a patchwork 
shawl?”
	“Yes”
	“Its Charlie Harcourt, the squire’s son,” said Zebedee.  “Just come 
from furrin parts!”
	“Zebedee,” said Bertha, with a curious little sound between a laugh 
and a sob, “put me into the cutter, quick, and drive me somewhere.  I don’t 
care where!  Because –“
	“Eh!” said Zebedee, staring hard at his cousin, as he packed the 
buffalo robe around her before touching up the laggard old pony.
	“Because,” added Bertha, in a species of desperation, “I took Mr. 
Harcourt for you; and I hugged him and kissed him.”
	“Is that all?” said philosophical Zebedee.  “He won’t care.”
	“No!” said Bertha, “but I shall.”
	“You ain’t crying, be you?” said Zebedee, noting the quiver in his 
cousin’s voice.
	“How can I help it?” wailed poor Bertha.
	“Twarn’t no fault o’yours,” said Zebedee, consolingly.
	“Of course it warn’t,” said Bertha, impatiently.  “How was I to know 
that every lantern at Montcourt had a red glass door to it?”
	And poor little Bertha cried herself to sleep that night.
	The next morning – Christmas Day, all showed up into glorious drifts 
everywhere – Mr. Harcourt drove over to the Higgins farm-house.  The young 
lady had dropped a fur glove on the platform, and Mr. Harcourt felt it his 
duty to restore it to her.  And, moreover, here Mr. Charley Harcourt hesitated 
a little – he hoped Miss Hooper would excuse him for being so stupid as to 
allow her to fancy him her cousin.
	“I ought to have explained sooner,” said he.
	“No, you out not,” said Bertha.  “The fault was all mine.”
	“I don’t recognize a fault any where,” said he.  And if I am pardoned—“
	“Of course you are!” said Bertha rosier and prettier than ever.
	“In that case I am commissioned by my mother to ask your aunt’s 
permission to take you over to help us finish deessing (sic) the church in 
time for morning service.  My horse is waiting.”
	“May I go, Aunt Almira?” said Bertha with sparkling eyes.
	“Of course you may go,” said Aunt Almira.
	What was the end of it all?  There is but one sequel to stories like 
this when youth and bright eyes and human hearts are concerned.  The next 
Christmas Eve Bertha Hooper and Charley Harcourt were married.  But the 
bridegroom persists in declaring that Bertha did the first of the lovemaking.
	And Bertha only laughs.

SHYING HORSES NEAR-SIGHTED
	“Why is it that shying in horses should be set down to an ugly 
disposition I don’t know,” said a prominent veterinary surgeon to a New York 
Sun reporter.  “It must be because horsemen don’t know what else to lay it 
to.  The fact is that it seldom is met with unless the horse is near-sighted.  
I have tested scores of shying horses for near-sightedness, and in nearly all 
cases found what I expected.  And now, when I am asked to give points on 
buying horses, I give this as one of the requisites: Never buy a horse which 
is near-sighted.  There are, however, two exceptions to this rule.  If the 
horse is to have a mate, then it doesn’t make any difference about the sight.  
One horse can go blind if the other is clear-sighted.  If the horse is to be 
used for riding to saddle be careful that he is not near-sighted, for he will 
throw you sooner or later.
	“The reason why a near-sighted horse shies is very simply,” the 
surgeon continued.  “Of all animals the horse is the most gentle and even 
timid.  He sees a strange object and his susceptible mind magnifies it into a 
monster that is going to destroy him.  A piece of white paper at the roadside 
in the night is a ghost and an old wagon in the ditch is a dragon.  Every 
horseman knows that if you drive the animal close to the dreadful object the 
horse cools down at once.  It is supposed that it is because the horse makes a 
closer acquaintance with the object.  That is true, but not in the sense in 
which it is generally understood.  The animal has not been able to see it from 
a distance.  He is near-sighted.

BOOKS FOR THE INDIANS
	The only written language of the American Indians was in the form of 
hieroglyphics, but this plan of picture-writing was not much used among the 
tribes of North America.  As the spoken languages of the tribes, however, have 
such a complete dialectic structure it was not difficult to give this a 
written form by means of the Roman alphabet.  This has been done in many 
instances and a number of grammars and dictionaries have been printed in 
different Indian dialects, besides many other books.  Several newspapers are 
at this time printed among the civilized Indians of the West, and at mission 
stations, in the Indian language.  The Aztecs and Toltecs kept their 
historical and other records by means of hieroglyphics in a very systematic 
manner.

AN ODD PUBLIC HOUSE
	A curious public house is among the latest attractions in Paris.  It 
is called La Taverne da Bagne.  The walls are hung with paintings representing 
the horrors of convict life, interspersed with portraits of notorious 
Communists.  All the waiters are dressed in convict uniform and wear the 
chains and boulets of the regular forcut.  The landlord is Citoyen Maxime 
Lisbonne, one of the leaders of the insurrection of 1871 – [London Truth]

EXPLORERS IN A PLIGHT

UNEXPECTED ADVENTURES IN LITTLE-KNOWN REGIONS

Dilemmas Some Of The Ridiculous And Others Dangerous

	It often happens, says the New York Sun, that explorers find 
themselves in some unexpected dilemma, and, unless they are quick enough to 
immediately extricate themselves, the results are sometimes serious.  Lieut. 
Cheyne’s adventure with a polar bear in the arctic regions shows the advantage 
of keeping one’s wits about him in an emergency.
	Lieut. Cheyne was an English officer in one of the Franklin search 
expeditions.  Early one spring he was sent with a couple of sledgemen to 
examine the condition of some provision depots that had been laid down the 
previous fall. They took nothing with them but a tent and sleeping bags, 
rations of pemmican and hard tack, and a small supply of tallow to be used as 
fuel in thawing their pemmican and boiling their tea.  One morning, after they 
had traveled about 150 miles from the ship, Lieut. Cheyne was awakened by 
something pulling at the corner of the tent.  He lifted the tent flap just in 
time to frighten a big white bear, and the animal was in full retreat over the 
ice before Cheyne had extricated himself from his sleeping bag.  The party had 
more serious work on hand than bear hunting, and they would have let the 
animal go if it had not been suddenly discovered that his bearship had torn 
open the tallow bag and eaten every ounce of fuel.  Here was a predicament.   
The men were five days journey from the ship, the weather was terribly cold, 
and they could not eat the solidly frozen pemmican.  It was necessary to get 
that tallow back, and so Cheyne, shouting to his comrades to follow, set out 
after the bear.  The chase was an exciting and anxious one, but the animal was 
at last overhauled and killed.  No time was lost in opening the creature’s 
stomach, and the men returned to camp in triumph with all the tallow of which 
the unfortunate brute had robbed them.
	During last winter the James brothers succeeded in exploring a part of 
Somauli, in East Africa, where several explorers had been killed.  The region 
has remained almost wholly unknown on account of the hostility of the 
natives.  The bravery of the Messrs. James’ escort rapidly oozed out as they 
advanced into the hostile country.  They refused once or twice to go any 
further, and finally the brothers hit upon this expedient for infusing them 
with a little courage.  A great noise in their own camp generally has an 
inspiring effect on the natives of Africa.  The Jameses had their sentinels 
fire their guns at frequent intervals during the night.  They report that this 
practice greatly pleased and inspired their people, who always felt more 
secure when firing.
	The young explorer, Thompson, two years ago, was considerably 
nonplussed by a lot of smart and suspicious natives whom he encountered near 
Mount Kenia in East Africa.  He had a few tricks which he very impressively 
performed when the inhabitants were unfriendly, and it was necessary to 
exhibit his great power as a wizard to induce them to see him food.  He had 
two artificial teeth on a plate, and the feat that usually overcame all 
opposition when everything else failed was to extract these teeth.  These 
Mount Kenia natives were very much pleased with this feat, but they said that 
if he could take out two teeth he could removed the others also, and they 
insisted upon seeing the entire show.  Finally they not only refused to sell 
him food, but threatened to attack him unless he took his teeth out, and he 
thought best to make a forced march one night to escape his too exacting 
acquaintances.
	Mr. Thompson’s white comrade, Martin, had a more serious experience 
with some suspicious natives, and perhaps it served him right.  He was telling 
a crowd of Wakwati girls that he could do even more wonderful things than the 
leader had shown them.  Holding out his hand he said he could cut his fingers 
off and put them on again.  One of the girls suddenly sprang forward, seized 
one of the extended fingers and cut it to the bone with a native knife.  She 
had taken Martin at his word, and was determined to see the feat performed.
	Dr. Hayes stole a march on the Esquimaux (sic) who refused to take him 
and his comrades back to Dr. Kane in Smith sound after the failure of Hayes’ 
attempt to return to Upernavik in small boats.  Hayes and his men fully 
expected to die of starvation unless the Esquimaux, with their dog sledges, 
assisted them to return north.  The Esquimaux declined to make the long 
journey in the growing darkness of the winter.  One day two natives drove up 
to Dr. Haye’s hut with a sledge load of walrus meat.  They were on their way 
home after a long journey, and they accepted the doctor’s invitation to tarry 
a while.  Everybody ate heartily of the walrus meat, and then the natives, 
overcome with fatigue, laid down for a nap.  Hayes and his men stole to the 
hut, barricaded the entrance, and then drove off with the dogs and walrus 
meat.  They had gone several miles before they saw the Exquimaux in full 
pursuit.  The party waited for the thoroughly angry natives to come up, and 
then told them plainly that they would never see their dogs and sledges again 
unless they agreed to go with them to Kane’s ship.  Finally a bargain was 
made, good feeling reestablished, and the poor fellows, together with some of 
their friends for a neighboring village, never rested until Hayes was back on 
the ship again.

NUMBER SEVEN
	The mystic power supposed by the credulous to belong to the number 
seven is due to the ancient belief that it is a holy number.  The sanctity was 
no doubt given to it primarily by the Mosaic narratives of the division of the 
week into seven days, the last of which was a day of rest, set apart and 
chosen for that purpose by Deity itself.  That the ancient Hebrews regarded 
the number as possessed of some mysterious, sacred quality is plain from its 
use as recorded in the Scripture narrative.  There were seven days in 
creation, seven weeks between the Passover and Pentecost, seven days allowed 
to feasts, and the same number to the ceremonies of purification; seven 
victims were offered as sacrifices on special occasions, the seventh was the 
sabbatical year, and seven times seven was the year preceding the year of 
Jubilee. The use of the symbolic number in the Apocalypse is something 
remarkable, the seven churches of Asia, the seven golden candlesticks, the 
seven stars, seven spirits before the throne, the book with seven seals, etc.  
The mystical meaning ascribed to this number was not peculiar to the Hebrews, 
however; it also prevailed, among the Persians, the ancient Hindoos, the 
Greeks, and the Romans.  Thence the superstition filtered down through the 
ages to the present time.  Thus there was seven wise men of Greece, seven 
wonders of the world, seven graces, and so on.  Ancient astrology had seven 
planets, the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus, and the 
seven metals of alchemy were supposed to corresponding with these, gold, 
silver, iron, quicksilver, lead, time, and copper, but modern discoveries in 
astronomy and chemistry interfered rather awkwardly with this very effective 
combination.  In fact, the enlightenment of modern times has shown so plainly 
the absurdity of superstitions concerning numbers that none but the credulous 
are now influenced by them – [Inter-Ocean]

A PISCOTORIAN HOWLER
	One of the most remarkable sound-making or musical fishes, is the 
great drum fish, or pogonias chromos, common on our western coast, and more 
than once the crews of vessels have been astonished at the curios sounds that 
come up from the sea.  A vessel that was lying off the coast becalmed some 
years ago was surrounded by a regular band of fishes that uttered the most 
remarkable sounds – now a shriek would rise, then a groan, followed by 
numerous grunts; the rushing of steam, the hiss of boiling water, muffled 
tones of a drum, and even the clanging of a deep-toned bell, were some of the 
remarkable sounds that rose from this musical school of finny singers.  
Humboldt, the great observer of natural phenomena, dwells upon the remarkable 
sounds that came from a school of fish that surrounded the vessel.  One of the 
most remarkable sounded like the twanging of a gigantic harp, while others 
were so loud and startling that the men were alarmed, fearing that an 
explosion was about to occur from some submarine volcano – [Atlanta 
Constitution]

GENTIANS

Shivering like children with their garments torn,
All the comely leaves of their roundness shorn,
Crouched in the bleached and shudd’ring grass
I find them today as I idly pass,
Blue gentians.

Children of frost – of winds snow-kissed,
Nurtured in travail – in sleet and mist,
Budding and blowing in the chilling rain,
With little of gladness and much of pain,
Poor gentians!

In pity I bend and gather each one,
And hold them up to the pitying sun,
To give them a glimpse of a fairer day,
Before they shall droop in their quick way,
Sad gentians.

And I hold them close to my eager face,
And the tender lines of their being trace,
And I count their goodness to come so late,
When no flower is left to be their mate,
Lorn gentians.

Though the year of my life wane drear and cold,
May this kindness be left, its hands to hold,
That some flower of love as a tender sign
May bloom as a token of summer time,
Sweet gentians – [S. B. McManus in the Current]

HUMOROUS

All the rage – A mad dog.

An open question – Are you going to let me in.

As a general thing, what a man sews he rips.

The thermometer gains notoriety by degrees, so to speak.

A new and precious sardine – The Prince of Wales in oil.

The way some farmers treat their land is really harrowing.

The man who is opposed to vaccination is probably to be pitted.

Even the most inveterate toper objects to taking a horn with a bull.

A young lady asks “How can I remove superfluous hair?”  Comb the butter.

The telephone is an arrangement by which two men can lie to each other without 
becoming confused.

The king of Sweden and Norway is a poet.  The dictum that the king can do no 
wrong appears to be exploded.

“Round again?” he asked, as the dun put his head in at the door.  “Yes, and 
I’ll stay ‘round until I get square.”

Hayti (sic) has had 179 revolutions in 85 years.  The first thing a Haytien 
(sic) does in the morning is to consult the newspaper to see under what 
government he is living.

Prisoner (desirous of flattering the court) – I think there is a fine 
expression in your honor’s face.  Judge – (urbanely) – So there is, and the 
fine is $10 and costs.

“Using tobacco in one form,” says a hater of the weed, “usually leads to the 
use of it in another.”  This is doubtless true, for when a man first takes 
snuff he must et-chew!

“Why Johnny,” exclaimed mamma, “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself, going about 
with such a dirty face?” “No, I ain’t” replied Johnny, with a conscious pride 
in the integrity of his intentions, “You’d like to have me taken for a dude, 
wouldn’t you?”

“I was never exactly buried alive” said an old clerk, recounting his 
experience, “but I once worked a week in a store that did not advertise.  When 
I cam out my head was almost as white as you see it now.  Solitary confinement 
did it.”

A MACHINE THAT CALCULATES
	The calculating machine invented by Prof. THOMSON appears to excel, in 
its ingenious adaptation to a variety of results, even Babbage’s wonderful 
apparatus.  By means of the mere friction of a disk, a cylinder and a ball, 
the machine is capable of effecting numerous complicated calculations which 
occur in the highest application of mathematics to physical problems, and by 
its aid an unskilled person may, in a given time, perform the work of ten 
expert mathematicians.  The machine is applicable alike to the calculating of 
tidal, magnetic, meteorological and other periodic phenomena; it will solve 
differential equations of the second, or even higher powers or orders; and 
through this same wonderful arrangement of mechanical parts, the problem of 
finding the three motions of any number of mutually attracting particles, 
unrestricted by any of the approximate suppositions required in the treatment 
of the lunar and planetary theories, is done by simply turning a handle – [New 
York Sun]

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY JAN. 21, 1886

ANNOUNCEMENT

For Circuit Clerk.  We are authorized to announce S. M. SPRUILL as a candidate 
for the office of Circuit Clerk of Lamar County.  Subject to the Democratic 
Party.  Election in August, 1886.

A colored man, SAM ANDERSON, filed papers in a case for damages against 
Sheriff BECK, of Vicksburg, on the 29th ult. for $10,000 for false 
imprisonment.

Alabama Senators in Congress stand up like men on the silver resolution.  
Senator PUGH made the best speech of his life on the resolution a few days ago.

HON. JOHN M. MARTIN appears on the committees of Elections and Patents.  The 
Democrats of the District will not depart from the old time custom of 
endorsing faithful servants at the next congressional convention.

The LaFayette Sun thinks that the race of little darkies now growing up 
without any home training, fearing no one, neither the law nor man nor God, 
are bound to be a source of much future trouble.

THE NEXT GOVERNOR – [Florence Banner]

	As some few papers in the State accuse North Alabama of wanting the 
next Governor, we make a short extract from an article in a late issue of the 
Montgomery Advertiser from “Populus” which we think, with but little 
exception, voices the sentiment of a large proportion of North Alabama, and 
which we hope will set at rest the acquisition that “North Alabama wants the 
next Governor,” “Populus” says:
	Whilst the friends of each candidate for Gubernatorial honors are 
asserting claims to popularity in favor of their respective choice, permit an 
Across the Mountains to express himself in favor of COL. N. H. R. DAWSON, of 
Dallas.  His ability as a statesman and lawyer, and his purity as a patriot 
are facts recognized and appreciated by his numerous friends and acquaintances 
in North Alabama as will be forcibly illustrated in the coming campaign.  I 
have no axe to grind, and therefore may be allowed to express an unbiased and 
impartial opinion that Col. DAWSON will poll more strength from Colbert and 
Lauderdale than any other candidate proposed.  His unselfish action in 
withdrawing in his first candidacy, and his consistency in the continued 
withholding of his name entirely during the last campaign without feeling his 
way for the possibility of a success antagonism, illustrated liberality and 
unselfishness which popularized him more with his own friends and 
acquaintances, and won the hearty good will and esteem of Gov. O’NEAL’S 
constituency at the same time.  One thing certain, that when the time comes 
COLBERT will roll up heavily and overwhelming for N. H. R. DAWSON for next 
Governor, and will be backed by Lauderdale in force.  Such is the feeling of 
the people, and they will so express in convention if not through the press.  
So score largely for DAWSIOB in our north west corner. – Yours respectfully, 
etc. – POPULUS.

OUR RAILROAD OUTLOOK – [From (Miss) Free South of Jan. 8th]
	We commend the following letter from the Hon. H. K. MARTIN, one of the 
incorporators of the Helens, Water Valley, Aberdeen, and Birmingham Railroad 
Co., of Water Valley, to Judge W. S. Bates, as full of practical suggestions 
worthy of consideration.
JUDGE W. S. BATES:  Great events never happen by chance, there is always a 
moving cause underlying the rise and progress of every locality.  The 
statistics of the country clearly shows that Meridian, Columbus, and Holly 
Springs are growing into prominence and assuming the proportions of cities 
more rapidly than any other towns in the State.  Not because they have 
superior natural advantages over many other towns in the state, but its 
because of the liberality, the zeal and enterprise of their citizens.  While 
other localities having vastly superior natural advantages over these, 
approaching to be railroad centers, have slept the sleep of local 
destruction.  Brandon, Kosciusko, Houston, and Ripley was designed by nature 
to be the grand railroad centers in Mississippi, and would have been so today, 
if the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad had been built when it ought to have been 
done, using Columbus as a centering outlet to the coal and iron regions in 
Alabama.  The resources and commercial advantages in Mississippi will never be 
fully developed until this road is built, tapping Brandon, Kosciusko, Houston, 
and Ripley.  It behooves this center belt of country to wake up.  They should 
remember that Meridian two years ago come a spot of moving the Capitol of the 
state, because of her railroad facilities, realizing the fact that should this 
grand central trunk be from Ship Island to the Tennessee line, all eyes and 
hearts will be turned towards Kosciusko, the beautiful little city and 
geographical center of the state.  I have lived on this line since 1838 and 
think I know whereof I speak.  It runs through a belt of country from one end 
of the state to the other, seemingly designed by nature for a road bed, and 
would open up a market for more exhaustible forests of pine, post oak, and 
white oak timbers than any other road of the same length in the United State.  
But as this road is not yet built, the next best thing in sight is the 
construction of a road from Helena, Ark., to Birmingham, Ala.  Two years ago, 
I drafted a charter, went to Jackson and procured its passage. Granting the 
right of way from Helena via Water Valley and Aberdeen to the Alabama line 
upon as liberal terms as any charter which has been passed in a number of 
years.  At that time I entertained the belief that the Illinois Central road 
would realize the advantages accruing to them from the construction of this 
road, that they would either build it or lend a helping hand in that 
direction; but to this hour such has not been the case.  Recent developments 
however have satisfied my mind that the Iron Mountain road would realize more 
benefits from the construction of this enterprise than any other road.  This 
extension of the Iron Mountain from Helena to Birmingham would open up a 
direct communication between the coal and iron regions in Alabama and the 
Mississippi River, St. Louis, and the entire northwest.  Besides, this road 
would pass through belts of the best lands and timber in the South.  The 
resources of Calhoun county is bound to have transportation, with her 
productive soil, energetic people and her abundance of the very best of timer 
and stone she cannot longer say out in the cold and haul her produce 20 to 40 
miles to market.  Her inducements are too great, her hither-to hidden 
treasures are too powerful, to remain in the background much longer.  The time 
is not far off when commerce and transportation will hunt out such localities 
as Calhoun County, and the question is: From what point shall it start?  
Accepting this as a fixed fact than what say the people of Water Valley?  
Would it be best for her for the branch roads traversing Calhoun to diverge 
from the main liens of the Illinois Central and the Mobile and Ohio at Oxford, 
Coffeeville, Grenada, West Point or Okolona, or would it be vest to have the 
junction at Water Valley?  Let the prosperity of the city of Meridian and the 
adversity of Marion Station and Quitman answer the question.  Calhoun County 
will be blessed with railroad transportation within the next decade of years, 
and when ever the junctions of these roads are located at places other tan 
Water Valley. Then regret will take the place of peace and quietude’s, 
indulged in now by our citizens.  One go around with a railroad is worse on 
any town than three scourges with yellow fever.  It is truthfully said 
that “competition is the life of trade,” and it is equally true that without 
railroads we are without competition.  The road from Helena to Birmingham can 
ought to be built, and the people of Water Valley ought to favor it, in self 
defense, but space will not allow me to give further reason why.  I have 
expressed these views for what they are worth, inviting the people to take due 
notice thereof and govern themselves accordingly.
HUGH K. MARTIN

WHO OUGHT TO SUPPORT PROHIBITION
The young man who is in danger.
The patriot who loves his country.
The women who suffer most from rum.
The total abstainer who does not need saloons.
The father whose example will be followed by the son.
The drinking man who feels the power of tempting saloons.
The minister whose flock is ravaged by the wolf of strong drink.
The Christian who like a good Samaritan loves his neighbor.
The rich man whose taxes are greatly increased by the saloons.
The business man, because the liquor traffic injures his business.
The moderate drinker who may become a drunkard if the saloons continue.
Travelers, because their lives are imperiled by being in the hands of 
intemperate men.
The landlord, because the rumseller often gets much of the money that ought to 
be paid for rent.
The father who wants to protect his daughter from the curse of being married 
to a drunken man.
The poor man who is compelled to support an army of worthless men because they 
are rumsellers. – [Ex]

It is said that the sale of Bibles is now forbidden in Rio Janeiro.

E. W. BROCK, Vernon C.H. & Crew’s Mill: Cheap dealer in boots, shoes, hats, 
clothing, dry good, & notions; hardware, cutlery, Queensware, Glassware, Inks, 
Pat. Medicines, Oils, Dyestuffs, Perfumery, Extracts, and groceries of all 
kind.  Real estate in various parts of the county.  My motto is “Quick sales 
and small profits.”  I request all persons to call and price my large and well-
selected stock, before purchasing elsewhere.  I will sell as low or lower than 
any other house in the county.

NEW MUSIC BOOKS – “GOOD TIDINGS COMBINES” By A. J. Showalter.  This is the 
latest and best of all the Sunday School books for popular use.  It contains 
36 pages, and on ever page there is a gem of sacred song.  Bound in 
substantial boards.  Price 25 cents per copy; $2.50 per dozen.  THE NATIONAL 
SINGER. By A. J. Showalter & J. H. Teaney.  This book is the result of much 
careful work by the most experience musicians who write for character notes.  
It is the bet of all the singing school books, as it contains enough new music 
of every grade and variety to interest and instruct any school or convention, 
and also all of the more popular standard hymn tunes of the church.  This is a 
feature that is wanting in every other popular character notebook.  The 
National Singer supplies this and every other want to make an ideal signing 
schoolbook.  Price 75 cents; $7.50 per dozen.  THE MUSIC TEACHER.  A new 
monthly musical Journal edited by A. J. Showalter.  Every student of music, 
chorister and teacher should read good musical journals.  The Music Teacher 
aims to instruct as well as entertain.  Price 50 cents per year.  Specimen 
copies free.  Agents wanted.  We can furnish any other music or music book no 
matter where published.  It would also be in your interest to write us when 
you want to buy a piano or organ, or any thing else in the music line. – A. J. 
Showalter & Co., Dalton, Ga.

Barber Shop – For a clean shave or shampoo, call on G. W. BENSON, in rear of 
Dr. BURN’S office, Vernon, Ala.

For a complete stock of clothing, hats, shirts, &c., &c. go to BUTLER & TOPPS 
Columbus, Miss.

Masonic.  Vernon Lodge., NO. 289 A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at 
Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month. 
 J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W.M. 
 		 M. W. MORTON, Sec.
Vernon Lodge., No. 45, I. O. O. F. meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th 
Saturdays at 7 ½ p.m. each month.
W. G. MIDDLETON, N. G.
M. W. MORTON, sect’y

ATTORNEYS
NESMITH & SANFORD      THOS. B. NESMITH, Vernon, Ala.  J. B. SANFORD, Fayette 
C. H., Ala.  Attorneys-at-Law.  Will practice as partners in the counties of 
Lamar and Fayette, and separately in adjoining counties, and will give prompt 
attention to all legal business intrused to them or either of them.

SMITH & YOUNG, Attorneys-At-Law Vernon, Alabama– W. R. SMITH, Fayette, C. H., 
Ala.   W. A. YOUNG, Vernon, Ala.  We have this day, entered into a partnership 
for the purpose of doing a general law practice in the county of Lamar, and to 
any business, intrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal 
attention.   – Oct. 13, 1884.

PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS
M. W. MORTON.  W. L. MORTON.  DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons.  
Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala.  Tender their professional services to the citizens of 
Lamar and adjacent country.  Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we 
hope to merit a respectable share in the future.  Drug Store.

Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala.  Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, 
I hope to receive a liberal share in the future.

PHOTOGRAPHS – A. R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss.  Price list:
Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00
Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00
Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00
Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00
Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00
Satisfaction given or money returned.

RESTAURANT.  Aberdeen, Mississippi.  Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to 
call on MRS. L. M. KUPPER, who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakery, and 
Confectionery, Toys, Tobacco, and Cigars.  Also Coffee and sugar.  Special 
attention paid to ladies.

Largest, cheapest, best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies & misses 
jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, & hats, tin 
ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS’S.

CADY’S LIVERY FEED AND SALE STABLE  Columbus, Mississippi.  stock fed and 
cared for at moderate charges.

New goods, new prices.  W. L. JOBE’S, the jeweler.  Columbus, Mississippi.  I 
have just returned from the North with a large and well selected stock of 
watches, clocks, jewelry, and silver plated ware which I will sell as low as 
the quality of the goods permit.  When in Columbus don’t fail to call and 
examine my goods and prices.  Cash orders will receive prompt attention.   – 
W. L. JOBE.

WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama.  Board and Lodging can be had at the above 
House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor.

New Cash Store, Vernon – Alabama.  We have just opened a large, fresh, and 
well selected stock of General Merchandise, consisting of dry goods, notions, 
family groceries, &c.  We have on hand also, a large and well selected stock 
of School Books.  The bottom knocked out in prices.  We only ask a trial.  
Chickens, eggs, butter, and all kinds of country produce wanted, and on hand. –
 GEO. W. RUSH & Co.

The Great Bazaar!  Aberdeen, Mississippi.  S W Corner, Commerce and Meridian 
Streets.  Crockery, china, glassware, tin ware, fancy goods, stationery, 
jewelry, notions, candies, toys and Holiday goods of all kinds at wholesale or 
retail.  Special attention given to the wholesale department.  Trial orders 
solicited and prices guaranteed.  Terms:  Thirty days, net, 2 percent off for 
cash.  No charge for package.  THOS. A. SALE & CO.

New Store!  M. H. HODGE, Kennedy, Alabama.  Has a large and well selected 
stock of general merchandise consisting in part of dry goods, groceries, 
notions, hardware, Queensware, boots, and shoes, Highest Market Price paid for 
cotton.

ERVIN & BILLUPS, Columbus, Miss.  Wholesale and retail dealers in pure drugs, 
paints, oils, paten Medicines, tobacco & cigars.  Pure goods! Low prices!  
Call and examine our large stock.

Go to ECHARD’S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY, Columbus, Mississippi, when you want a fine 
photograph or ferrotype of any size or style.  No extra charge made for 
persons standing.  Family group and old pictures enlarged to any size.  All 
the work is done in his gallery and not sent North to be done.  Has a handsome 
and cheap line of Picture Frames on hand.  Call at his Gallery and see his 
work when in Columbus.

STAR STABLE – Aberdeen, Mississippi.  A. A. POSEY & BRO., having consolidated 
their two Livery Stables, are now offering many additional advantages at this 
well-known and conveniently located Livery Stable.  Owing to their 
consolidation, they have on hand a number of good second-hand buggies which 
they are selling cheap.

MORGAN, ROBERTSON & CO., Columbus, Mississippi.  General dealers in staple dry 
goods, boots, & shoes, groceries, bagging, ties, etc. etc. Always a full stock 
of goods on hand at Bottom prices.  Don’t fail to call on them when you go to 
Columbus.

JOHNSON’S ANODYNE liniment. The most wonderful family remedy ever known.  For 
internal and external use.  Parson’s pills make new, rich blood.  Make hens 
lay….(to small to read)

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY JA. 14, 1886             

MAIL DIRECTORY

VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except 
Sunday, by way of Caledonia.
VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell.
VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday.
VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by 
way of Moscow and Beaverton.
VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday.
VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every 
Wednesday and Saturday.

STATE OFFICERS
Governor				E. A. O’NEAL
Auditor					M. C. BARKLEY 
Treasurer				FRED H. SMITH
Alternate ------				T. N. MCCLELLAN
Supt. of Public Education		S. PALMER
Secretary of State			ELLIS PHELAN

JUDICIARY
B. O. BRISKELL				Chief Justice Supreme Court
G. W. STONE				Associate Justice Supreme Court
R. M. SOMERVILLE			Associate Justice Supreme Court
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

CHANCERY COURT
THOMAS COBBS			Chancellor

CIRCUIT COURT
S. H. SPROTT				Circuit Judge
THOS. W. COLEMAN			Solicitor

COUNTY OFFICERS
ALEX. COBB				Probate Judge
JAMES MIDDLETON			Circuit Clerk
S. F. PENNINGTON			Sheriff
L. M. WIMBERLEY			Treasurer
W. Y. ALLEN				Tax Assessor
D. J. LACY				Tax Collector
JAMES M. MORTON			Register
B. F. REED				Co. Supt. of Education
Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALVERT WILSON

CITY OFFICERS
L. M. WIMBERLEY			Mayor and Treasurer
G. W. BENSON				Marshall
Board of Aldermen – T. R. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS. MIDDLETON, W. A. BROWN, 
R. W. COBB

RELIGIOUS
FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each 
month, 7 p.m.
MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor J. E. COX.  Services second Sabbath in each month 
at 11 am.
METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT.  Services fourth Sabbath in each month.  11 
a.m.

SABBATH SCHOOLS
UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m.  JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt.
METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m.  G. W. RUSH, Supt.

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LOCAL BREVITIES

Call on J. & W. G. MIDDLETON for the best factory thread.

Mr. J. F. FERGUSON of Bedford was in town Tuesday.

Judge COBB issued 122 marriage license last year.

Five inmates in the new cell in the county jail, all colored.

The prisoners that broke jail some time since have been recaptured.

Capt. W. G. RICHARDS of Fernbank spent last Monday in our midst.

Miss MOLLIE CREW after spending some time in town, returned home Tuesday.

Uncle TOMMY SPRINGFIELD is not able to come to the Post Office yet.

Taxes are all delinquent now, and those who have not yet paid will be charged 
an additional fee of 50 cents when they come to settle.

Stock for Sale.  E. W. BROCK has a lot of mules and horses for sale – Stock of 
all grades and at giving away prices.

Two of our popular merchants have been selling goods so cheap that the boys 
have named them “Cheap Joe” and “Cheap John”.

Parties who owe $2 and only have $1 should pay the $1 out and then they will 
stand a chance to get it back again to pay the other $1 with – Eutaw Mirror.

JAMES T. ALLEN, Vernon, Ala, having recently attended the Alabama Normal Music 
School is prepared to teach classes in Lamar and adjoining counties.  Write 
him for terms and have a class this winter.

We were pleased to meet Esq. JOHN E. GRAVES in town yesterday.

The bottom has fallen out of the roads is the talks everywhere.

Capt. JAS. M. WILSON of Fernbank spent Monday in town.

Sustain the churches, the schools and – the county paper.

We have excellent pastors – let them know that you appreciate them.

In another column will be found a list of the Grand and Petit Jurors.

We are now ready to supply demands for waive notes.

The weather is milder just now, but it is impossible to say how long it will 
continue so.

The business of collection seems quite brisk – at least duns are in active 
circulations.

Mr. R. W. COBB left with a large drove of cattle for New Orleans yesterday 
morning.

The lawyers are beginning to move about in a hurry saying “Court is coming on.”

JOHN W. MORTON will open a Blacksmith shop in town in a few days.  Terms cash 
or its equivalent.

Dr. W. A. BROWN’S horse mired up in the south part of town last Saturday and 
gave the Dr. a serious fall.

The Birmingham Age issues the jolliest and prettiest little Carrier of the 
season.

Schools appear to be prosperous throughout the country, which shows a tendency 
to appreciation of the importance of education.

The usual number of drummers visit our town, as jolly and active and as 
courteous as ever.  The presence of the drummer denotes prosperity in business 
circles.

If you like this paper, give it a kind word once in awhile – it helps all 
hands – and if you like it very much, remember that actions speak even louder 
than words.

Does the shepherd go back to his ninety-nine?  Ah, no, he must continue to 
seek.  How long?  Until he finds.  The work of Christ must go on till at the 
last ever tongue shall confess and claim him as its Lord – Rev. D. M. HODGE

TOM SMITH, colored, was up before Esq. W. G. MIDDLETON on Monday, on charge of 
stealing a mule from Mr. GREEN JORDAN.  Evidence tended to show that the def’t 
was caught with the mule before he left the farm of Mr. JORDAN.  The def’t was 
committed to jail being unable to make bond for his appearance at Circuit 
Court.

LAMAR COUNTY, ALA., Jan 18th, 1886
Editor of NEWS:
	Your correspondents from various parts of the county have been writing 
of the election of their men and expressing their wishes about the same.  I 
beg leave to give some views that are common in the community, and in this 
community I will first say that we pluck no grapes but those that grow on the 
real Democratic vine.
	First, we believe that the Democratic party ought to manage and 
control this government from Constable to President, and we do this because we 
believe that its principles tend to the perpetuation of a free government and 
vouching safe to us the greatest personal liberty.
	Second, we believe that every office should be filled by a man who is 
affiliated with some political party and that the party be held to a strict 
account for the acts of the official.
	Third, we are in favor of an organized Democratic party, and that the 
party in convention assembled composed of our best and most honorable men, 
representing without strangulating a single voter of Democratic principles, 
such men as in point of integrity, ability and political sentiments as are in 
harmony with the national democracy.
	Fourth, if those holding to such political opinion and sentiments are 
not in the majority and can not put in office such men as would be faithful to 
trusts imposed in them as being of sound Democratic politics; then, we are in 
favor of men who are Republicans and the conduct of whom the Republican party 
is responsible holding offices.
- DEMOCRAT

MARRIED:  Mr. WM. EDGEWORTH and Miss M. E. COOK, at residence of bride’s 
father, on 29th of Dec., by Rev. S. J. GIVENS.

We have received Vick’s Floral Guide for 1886, published by JAMES VICK, of 
Rochester, N. Y.  It is full of valuable information concerning fruits flowers 
and vegetables, and is no beautifully gotten up as to be in truth and indeed a 
fitting subject for a parlor table.

Candidates are coming out freely in our neighboring counties, but they are 
rather backward in Lamar.  Only one has announced as yet, but they will come 
out at court.  That is their favorite time for blossoming.  They can see 
representatives from the different sections of the county and calculate their 
chances.

The mammoth seed house of D. M. Ferry & Co., of Detroit, probably the largest 
establishment of the kind in the world, was destroyed by fire a few days ago.  
Loss, about $1,250,000 with light insurance.

OBITUARY:  Died: On the night of the 13th inst. at his home eight miles west 
of town, BENJAMIN F. SMITH, in his fifty-fifth year.  The deceased bore seven 
scars received while trying to uphold the lost cause.  One of the wounds 
received hastened his death.  He died expressing full faith in the Christian 
religion, giving his friends positive assurance that all was well with him.
- FRIEND

ALABAMA NEWS

Ozark, Dale County, has gone dry.

Chickens and hogs froze to death at Gadsden during the recent cold snap.

The Birmingham Fire Brick Works lost over $1,000 by the late cold spell.

The matter of Senator Morgan’s successor is engaging public attention.

Mr. R. H. Wynne, of Etowah county, recently killed a sixteen months old Polard 
China pig which weighed 453 pounds.

Rev. H. STRINGFELLOW, of Montgomery, is after the mayor, chief of police and 
board of aldermen of that city for not making more vigorous efforts to 
suppress gambling.

There is a preacher over at LaFayette who has married 45 couples for which he 
only received $5.00 or 11.19 cents for each couple.  Cheap enough!

A negro woman living 4 miles from Montgomery recently gave birth to 4 babies.  
They were all doing well at last accounts.

GRAND AND PETIT JURORS

Below we give a list of Grand and Petit Jurors drawn for the Spring term of 
the Circuit Court.

GRAND JURORS

R. C. RECTOR			Town Beat		Farmer
H. A. BROCK			Lawrence		“
D. H. SIZEMORE		Sizemore		“
W. T. STANFORD		Brown’s		“
A. P. COOPER		Henson’s		“
W. L. YOUNG		Milleville		“
W. M. STONE		Pine Springs		“
G. W. WOODS		Moscow		“
GEO. W. BETTS		Betts			“
F. M. RICHARDS		Trull’s			“
T. J. DUNCAN		Vail’s			“
J. J. HEMPHILL		Millport		“
ELIJAH HOWELL		Steen’s			“
J. J. BRANYAN		Stricland		“
A. P. ODOM		Wilson’s		“

PETIT JURORS FOR FIRST WEEK

AARON PENNINGTON	Town Beat		Farmer
JOHN WARD		“			“
JOHN S. WOFFORD		“			“
J. T. MCMANUS		“			“
J. F. COLLINS		Lawrence		“
R. S. WILSON		Sizemore		“
R. E. BRADLEY		Brown’s		“
W. W. PURNELL		Good			“
J. V. CRUMP		Henson’s		“
J. B. BERRYHILL		Millville		“
O. M. THOMPSON		“			“
W. L. SANDLIN		Pine Springs		“
MARVEL THOMPSON		Moscow		“
J. R. BANKHEAD		“			“
C. C. WATSON		“			“
J. A. YOUNG		Military Springs	“
A. L. HARRINGTON		Betts			“
W. P. FALKNER		Trull’s			“
A. J. ATKINS		Vail’s			“
J. N. PROPST		Millport		“
G. B. MOORE		Steen’s			“
WILEY RAWLAND		Strickland		“
JAS M. WILSON		Wilson’s		“
S. M. CURRY		“			“

PETIT JURORS FOR SECOND WEEK

T. N. LOGAN		Town Beat		Farmer
O. L. GUYTON		“			“
JOEL F. SANDERS		“			“
HIRAM HOLLIS, JR.		“			“
J. M. OAKS 		Lawrence		“
J. F. KIRK		Sizemore		“
JNO. T. HILL		Brown’s		“
F. M. LACEY		Good			“
H. C. ELLIOTT		Henson’s		“
J. A. DAVIDSON		Millville		“
JAMES RIGGAN		Millville		“
G. W. BLACK		Pine Springs		“
GEO. E. BROWN		Moscow		“
T. M. WOODS		Moscow		“
R. P. HANKINS		Moscow		“
J. H. JORDAN		Military Springs	“
S. P. KEMP		Betts			“
FRANK BREWER		Trull’s			“
A. J. VAIL		Vail’s			“
W. H. CONNER 		Millport		“
J. W. RICHARDSON		Steen’s			“
J. N. COLLINS		Strickland		“
J. H. CASH		Wilson’s		“
T. J. YARBROUGH		Wilson’s		“

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A REMARKABLE CASE
	Mrs. Henry Ellis, 500 Scott Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 
writes:  “Dr. S. B. Hartman & Co., Columbus, O.  I am induced by a sense of 
duty to the suffering to make a brief statement of your remark able cure of 
myself.  I was a most miserable sufferer from the various annoying and 
distressing diseases of delicate persons, which caused me to be confined to my 
bed for a long time, being too weak to even bear my weight upon my feet.  I 
was treated by the most reputable physicians in our city, each and all saying 
they could do nothing for me.  I had given up all hopes of ever being well.  
In this condition I began to take your Manalin and Peruna, and I am most happy 
to say in three months I was perfectly well – entirely cured, without any 
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THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL now under the Principalship of JNO. R. GUIN, will 
open Nov. 2, 1885, and continue ten scholastic months.  Able assistants will 
be employed when needed.  Said school offers great advantages.  Tuition as 
follows:  
Primary:  Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, Primary 
Arithmetic, per month………….$1.25
Intermediate:  Embracing Practical Arithmetic, English Grammar, Intermediate 
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ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County, Alabama, I will 
offer for sale at Kennedy on the 6th day of February next the following lands  
N W ¼ of S W ¼ and S ½ of S W ¼ Sec 10 N W ¼ and N W ¼ of S W ¼ and S E ¼ of S 
W ¼ and S W ¼ of N E ¼ and N E ¼ of S E ½        Sec 15 T 17 R14, as the lands 
belonging to the estate of C. K. COOK, deceased.  Said sale will be made for 
one-0sixth in cash and the remainder on a credit of twelve (12) months from 
day of sale.  The purchaser will be required to give note with at least two 
good securities for purchase money.  This the 4th day of January 1886.
- J. G. TRULL, Administrator of the estate of C. K. COOK

FINAL SETTLEMENT
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, January 2nd, AD 1886
Estate of JAMES B. BANKHEAD, deceased, this day came JOHN B. ABERNATHY 
administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, and vouchers 
for final settlement of his administration.  It is ordered that the 30th day 
of January, AD 1886, be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at 
which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, 
if they think proper.
- ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate of said county.

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Land Office at Huntsville, Ala., Nov. 13, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of 
his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof 
will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County at Vernon, Ala., on the 
12tjh day of February, 1886, viz:  No. 9862  ALFRED N. FRANKLIN, for the N ½ 
of N W ¼ Sec 19 T 12 and R 15 West.  He names the following witnessed to prove 
his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz:  J. W. PAUL, 
JOHN R. EVANS, JOHN H. RAY and S. M. LEE, all of Detroit, Lamar County, 
Alabama.
- WM. C. WELLS, Register

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION     (NOTICE NO. 4643)
Land Office at Montgomery, Ala. December 21st, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of 
his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof 
will be made before Judge of the Probate Court at Vernon, Ala. on February 
12th, 1885 (sic), viz:  JEFFERSON G. SANDERS homestead, 10087 for the N W ¼ N 
W ¼ Section 8 T 15 R 15 West.  He names the following witnesses to prove his 
continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz:  J. E. 
PENNINGTON, HIRAM HOLLIS, JAMES W. TAYLOR, WILLIAM AUSTIN, all of Vernon, Ala.
- THOS. SCOTT, Register

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Land Office at Huntsville, Ala, December 9th, 1885.
Notice is hereby given that the following named petitioner has filed notice of 
his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar 
County, Ala, at Vernon, on January 29, 1886, viz:  No. 8740, ISAAC METCALFE 
for the S ½ of S E ¼, and N E ¼ or S E ¼ and S E (?) of S W ¼ Sec 21, T 12 R14 
West.
	He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence 
upon, and cultivation of said land, viz:
	ZACK SWERNIGER, GEORGE W. METCALFE, MONROE CRUMP, and FILLIMON 
TRULOVE, all of Pikeville, Ala.
- W. G. WELLS, Register

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FOR THE FARM AND HOME

THE APPLE ORCHARD
	Josiah Hoopes says in the New York Tribune: One may apply fertilizers 
to the soil and yet neglect the trimming, washing the bark, and destruction of 
injurious insects.  I consider all of very nearly equal importance.  A top-
dressing of any good, rich compost during autumn will pay the owner of an old 
orchard as surely as if applied to his wheat field or potato-patch.  And yet 
the farmers allow the trees to “run out” to use a common expression, from 
ignorance or parsimony.  As to breaking up the tough sod of an old orchard to 
infuse health in the trees, some difference in judgement exists, but I never 
could see the use of destroying the roots, when equally good results may be 
gained by simply scattering manure over the surface.  Let farmers try the 
latter and mark the result; then follow up the good work next spring by 
heading back the tops of all old mossy trees, and apply a coat of alkali in 
weak solution to the bark of the body and larger branches.  I like whitewash 
for this purpose.

GREED OF COWS
	It is hardly necessary to tell any one, says the Livestock Journal,  
that the domestic cow is a great feeder, and that this is especially true of 
cows that are great milkers.  The appetites of domestic animals are largely 
wheat years of feeding for certain ends has made them, and they may, 
therefore, be regarded as in a measure abnormal.  This is shown clearly enough 
by the great milk and butter tests, which have shown that cows can by 
systematically overfed up to a point where death quickly follows.  This being 
the case, it is necessary in feeding cows to be careful that feed of a 
assimilating, concentrated character be administered regularly and 
judiciously.  The over-indulgence which a cow will practice at times, when 
allowed unrestricted access to grain or apples, is usually due not only to the 
greatly developed active udder, but far more to a want of regularity in 
feeding and the neglect of the feeder to meet the demands of such an appetite 
as they develop.  With proper feeding, cows can be trained to take care of 
themselves with any kind of food before them.  Even with apples, than which no 
kind of food is more dangerous to cows when indulged in to excess, this 
statement holds good, and when properly trained, being fed at first moderately 
and the quantity gradually increased, they seem to learn to measure the 
quantity their stomachs can managed, and may be as safely trusted in the 
orchard as nay other animal.  In the case of bovines the trouble arises from 
the unnatural distension of the rumen by habitually overcrowding it with 
coarse food in an effort to satisfy the appetite induced by any great draft 
upon the system.  Thus stretched, it will hold more of a concentrated food 
than the animal can digest before fermentation becomes active enough to be 
injurious.  It may be stated here that, fed judiciously, apples are a 
healthful, safe, and an excellent milk producing food.

CARE OF CELLARS
	A great mistake is sometimes made in ventilating cellars and milk 
houses.  The object of ventilation is to keep the cellars cool and dry, but 
this object often fails of being accomplished by a common mistake, and 
instead, the cellar is made both warm and damp.  A cool place should never be 
ventilated, unless the air admitted is cooler than the air within, or is at 
least as cool as that, or a very little warmer.  The warmer the air, the more 
moisture it holds in suspension.  Necessarily, the cooler the air, the more 
this moisture is condensed and precipitated.  When a cool cellar is aired on a 
warm day, the entering air being in motion appears cool; but as it fills the 
cellar, the cooler air with which it becomes mixed chills it, the moisture is 
condensed, and dew is deposited on the cold walls, and may often be seen 
running down them in steams.  Then the cellar is damp, and soon becomes 
mouldy.  To avoid this, the windows should only be opened at night, and late – 
the last thing before retiring.  There is no need to fear that that the night 
air is unhealthful – it is as pure as the air of midday, and is really drier.  
The cool air enters the apartment during the night, and circulated through 
it.  The windows should be closed before sunrise in the morning, and kept 
closed and shaded through the day.  If the air of a cellar is damp, it may be 
thoroughly dried by placing in it a peck of fresh lime in an open box.  A peck 
of lime will absorb about seven pounds, or more than three quarts of water, 
and in this way a cellar of a milk room may soon be dried, even in the hottest 
weather.  A bushel of lime absorbs twenty-seven pounds of water, and still 
appears as a dry powder.  In this condition it will be very useful to spread 
over the garden or lawn, or around fruit trees, or it may be used for 
whitewash.  This precaution is often necessary in the dairy, because of the 
prevalence, where air is damp, of milder, and the various forms of mould.  The 
orange and red kinds of mould especially, which sometimes form upon the cream, 
have a most injurious effect upon the butter. – [American Agriculturist]

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES

Lack of comfort in animals hinders fattening.

If shade is excessive about the house thin out some trees.

It’s the sickly plants that are the most troubled by insects.

Many primroses are killed every year by over-watering.

Shearing lambs in midsummer is claimed by English farmers to greatly increase 
the growth of the carcass.

To prevent drain pipes from stopping up, pour a hot solution of potash into 
the pipes every month or two.

Many horses have a habit of sleeping standing.  It is not a good one, and 
horses should be broken of it if possible.

Trees on the outside of an orchard are usually more prolific.  There is more 
sunlight and air, and the roots have a freer range.

Churning sweet cream is not considered a good method by many leading 
authorities – the better plan being to allow the cream to ripen somewhat.

Potatoes dug in clear weather and thoroughly dried in the sun will keep in 
much better condition in the bins than those that have not been sun-dried.

Several years since a gardener discovered that by planting his squash seeds in 
earth that had a layer of coal ashes above and below it the vines were not 
molested by cutworms.

A cool, deep and rich soil is indispensable to success in the culture of 
herbaceous plants and bulbs.  Especially is this true of lilies and other 
bulbs that are usually set out at this season of the year.

Don’t put rotten potatoes into the cellar.  Don’t put so much corn into one 
bin that it can’t dry thoroughly.  Don’t put uncured cornstalks into the barn 
unless you want a fire.  Don’t try to feed a bull that you don’t need.

An Ohio farmer says he killed every potato beetle in a field “alive with 
them,” by sprinkling once with a mixture made in proportion of 5 pounds each 
of “slacked lime” and copperas, and 20 gallons of water.  “Beside, it benefits 
the plants.”

Plantain, dandelion and other weeds in a lawn may be destroyed by placing a 
little sulfuric acid with a stick in the crown of each plant.  The acid should 
be carried in an open-mouthed bottle with a long handle, so that fingers and 
clothes are protected.

Salt is often largely used in the food of pigeons, and should also be given 
fowls, especially during the molting season.  The proper way to feed it is to 
add it to the soft food in quantity sufficient to season the food to suit the 
taste, but should never be used in excess.

Dahlia roots in small quantities can be safely wintered when placed in a 
single layer and closely together, in a shallow box.  Put sifted sand over and 
around them, covering the crowns but not the stems.  Thus treated and placed 
in a frost-proof cellar, they will keep fresh and plump until spring.

RECIPES

APPLE CHARLOTTE – Line a buttered loaf tin with thin slices of home-made 
bread, dip the edges of the bread in white of egg and fill the space with a 
smooth apple sauce seasoned with lemon rind and nutmeg, or cinnamon; cover the 
top with strips of bread, put a small quantity of butter on top and bake one 
hour.

BROILED SWEET PTOATOES – Raw and boiled potatoes are served in this manner: 
Cut the raw potatoes in thin slices, brush melted butter over them and also 
over the wire broiler to prevent their sticking to it.  Broil them a dark 
brown.  Boiled sweet potatoes need to be but slightly broiled, just enough to 
warm through and at the same time to show the marks of the broiler.

PANCAKES – Whisk the yolks of five eggs thoroughly and add to them four ounces 
of flour, half a teaspoonful of salt and a tablespoonful of sugar.  Stir in 
half a teaspoonful of salt and a tablespoonful of sugar.  Stir in half a pinto 
of lukewarm milk and the whites of the eggs well beaten.  Grease a small pan 
slightly and fry the cakes very thin, shake the pan to prevent burning, and 
when they are a delicate brown on the under side turn them as artistically as 
possible.  When done put them on a hot plate with sugar and a dash of cinnamon 
on each and strew over the top one a quantity of fine sugar.  Hold over it a 
shovelful of live coals to melt the sugar.

SHREDDED CODFISH CAKES – The shredded codfish put up in tin cans is a blessing 
to those who dislike the annoyance of preparing the fish in the old-fashioned 
manner.  Open a one pound can of the shredded fish and wash it in two water, 
then cover with a liberal quantity of warm water and let stand half an hour.  
Squeeze out the water, separate the particles of fish and add to it half a 
pound of warm mashed potatoes.  Whip these together lightly, add a 
saltspoonful of white pepper, two ounces of butter and the yolks of two eggs 
well beaten.  Work all together and with floured hands shape the mixture into 
dainty little cakes.  Drop them in smoking hot fat and fry to a golden color. –
 [New York Cook]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

If nutmegs are good, when pricked with a pin, oil will instantly ooze out.

When sponge cake becomes dry it is nice to cut in thin slices and toast.

To remove mildew, soak in buttermilk and spread on the grass in the sun.

The warmth of floors is generally increased by having carpet ling of layers of 
paper under the carpet.

Milk, if put in an earthen jar, or even a tin can will keep sweet for a long 
time, if well wrapped in a wet cloth.

Never put salt into soup when cooking till it has been thoroughly skimmed, as 
salt prevents the scum from rising.

If sassafras bark is sprinkled among dried fruit and vegetables, it will keep 
insects from getting in, and will not injure their flavor.

STILL UNKNOWN

	Notwithstanding the activity of the civilized races in securing a 
knowledge of distant countries, there are as yet many serious unsolved 
geographical problems.  It is not know, for instance, what are the sources of 
the great Irawaddy River.  It pours into the Bay of Bengal within one-fifth as 
much water a s the Mississippi empties into the Gulf of Mexico.  Steamboats 
ascend it for 800 miles, and yet geographers do not know where are its head 
water.  There is a river called Sanpo, which flows through Thibet north of the 
Himalyas.  This may be the beginning of the Irawaddy, yet on many maps it 
pours into the Brahmapootra, which makes its way into India.  Then there are 
enormous stretches of South America which are blank on the amp.  We know the 
Orinoco River has a delta, but we are entirely unacquainted with its upper 
waters.  Only two of the twelve channels that pour into the Atlantic have been 
explored.  The native Indians, a ferocious race, said to be cannibals, will 
not permit the exploration of that river.  In the vast forest are some very 
peculiar but degrades races of men.  One-third of Australia and three-fourths 
of New Guinea are practically unknown.  In Hindostan, there is a rich and 
populous state called Nepaul, which was never visited except by one white 
man.  It is only the other day that Lieutenant Wissman discovered that the 
Kasai, one of the greatest tributaries of the Congo, was one hundred miles 
west of the place assigned to it on Stanley’s latest maps.  Then there are 
parts of the Dominion to the north of us that are absolutely unknown to the 
white races.  The Arctic and Antarctic circles are, and will long remain, a 
terra incognitate  -  [Demorest’s]

THE ANCIENT AND MODERN ARK
	The following figures concerning the Great Eastern and the Ark are of 
interest.  Somebody is comparing the size and cost of the Great Eastern and 
Noah’s Ark.  The cost of building and launching the Great Eastern was 
$3,650,000, and this broke the original company.  A new company was formed, 
which spent $600,000 in fitting and furnishing her.  Then this company failed, 
and a new company was organized, with a capital of $500,000.  At the close of 
1880 this company sank £ 86,715 upon the vessel, thus making her total cost 
$4,708,575.  Nothing built can stand comparison with the Great Eastern, 
excepting Noah’s Ark, and even this vessel could not match her.  The length of 
the Ark was 300 cubits, her breadth 50 cubits, and her height 30 cubits.  The 
cubit of the Scriptures, according to Bishop Wilkins, was 3165 inc. and 
computed into English measurements, the Ark 547 ft. long, 91 ft. beam, 54.7 
ft. depth, and 20,762 tons.  The Great Eastern is 680 ft. long, 83 ft. beam, 
56 ft. depth, and 28,093 tons measurement.  So Noah’s Ark is quite over 
shadowed by the Great Eastern. – [Scientific American]

PRESIDENT’S LINCOLN’S PHILOSOPHY
	Ben. Perley Poore, in the Boston Budget, says:  Some Western gentlemen 
called at the White House and harangued Mr. Lincoln in an excited manner about 
the omissions and commissions of the administration.  He heard them with his 
usual patience, and finally said:  “Gentlemen, suppose all the property you 
were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin to carry it 
across the Niagara Falls on a tight rope, would you shake the rope while he 
was passing over it, or keep shouting to him, ‘Blondin, stoop a little 
more,’ ‘Go a little faster?’  No, I am sure you would not.  You would hold 
your breath as well as your tongue, and keep your hands off until he was 
safely over.  Now, the government is in the same situation, and is carrying 
weight; untold treasures are in its hands; it is doing the best it can’ don’t 
badger it; keep silence, and it will get safely over.

WITCHCRAFT IN JAMAICA
	Obeshism, a species of witchcraft, is said to be the curse of 
Jamaica.  A recent traveller was struck by the extraordinary actions of a 
colored servant, who, instead of entering through the middle of the open door, 
slunk close to the posts and along the wall of the room, continually looking 
over his shoulder, as though in dread of some unseen but formidable power.  
This man, a professed Christian of good education and fair attainments, 
believed himself to be the victim of obeshism, and was pining away in sheer 
fright.  Although obeshism is punishable with five years’ penal servitude it 
is widely practiced throughout Jamaica, and numbers among its believers many 
people otherwise intelligent.

MOORISH DRESSES
	The better class of Moors, writes a correspondent from Algiers, wear 
trousers confined below the knee, with European stockings and shoes.  The 
chest is covered with a gayly-colored vest, a jacket slightly European, and a 
turban of many folds, and often of costly material.  Rings, set with diamonds 
or other precious stones, are much worn by persons of this class.  The richer 
Arabs and Kabyles wear a long robe of white cotton, over which is the woolen 
burous so familiar to those who have seen Screyeer’s pictures.  The head dress 
is a sort of turban, with a cape covering the nape of the neck and touching 
the shoulders.

A SINGULAR PRACTICE
	“All souls day” a very singular practice was resumed, after many years 
discontinuance at a church called La Madonna della morte in Via Giulla, on 
the “yellow Tiber’s banks” near Ponte Santa Angelo.  A large subterranean 
cemetery is located here, part of which is decorated with skeletons and human 
bones and skulls arranged in every conceivable grotesque fashion, and the day 
mentioned it was brilliantly lighted and thrown open to the public.  Many 
skeletons, with some wax figures, furnished a representation of the vision of 
Ezekiel.

EGGS – Ireland is making an effort to regain her old fame as an egg-producing 
country.  A poultry farm has been established in County Meath and stocked with 
Houdon fowl and Rouen duck, and the cottagemen in the neighborhood have been 
encouraged to raise poultry by the gift of setting eggs, to which the 
condition is attached that one-half the brood is to be returned to the farm.  
The experiment has so far worked well.


A STRANGE RITE – The heavy consumption of copper in India is largely due to a 
religious rite of the natives.  At certain seasons of the year small cups of 
sheet-copper about an inch in diameter and an inch and a half deep are filled 
with rice, and are thrown into the rivers as an offering, with religious 
ceremonies.  The quantity of copper thus annually consumed is very heavy.

WAX – The wax-plant, indigenous in Carolina and Pennsylvania, is now being 
cultivated in Algeria.  The fruit, inclosed in a bag of coarse cloth, is 
plunged into boiling water, and in a few seconds the liquid wax floats on the 
surface.  This is skimmed off and dried, and forms a good substitute for 
beeswax.

Laconic patient to physician:  Caught cold.  Physician:  Take Red Star Cure: 
no morphine, no poisons.  Only twenty-five cents.  St. Jacob’s cures pain.

The Japanese persimmon is to be cultivated in the south for commercial 
purposes.  The fruit, which is seedless, resembles the sweet orange in color 
and shape, rivals it in size, is exceedingly prolific, and is of a most 
delicious flavor.  It is believed it will grow rapidly in favor in this 
country.

HOW TO GET STRONG.  Dumb-bells and horizontal bars, Indian clubs and the 
trapose are valuable under certain conditions, but they are detrimental rather 
than beneficial if the blood is poor and thin and poisoned with bile.  Use of 
the muscles necessitates waste as well as induces growth.  If the blood does 
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necessarily follows, and growth is out of the question.  Purify and enrich 
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Chapped hands, face, pimples, and rough skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, 
made by Caswell, Hasard & Co., New York.

The winters in Iceland are milder than those in Iowa.  This is due to the Gulf 
Stream.

Ask you shoe and hardware dealers for Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners, they keep boots 
and shoes straight.

The Caroline Islands number five hundred, big and little.

A PECK OF PEAS (P’S)
Here are a peck of peas, sweet peas, if you will.  Perseverance, patience, 
promptness, proficiency, push and politeness.  Add to those Dr. 
Pierce’s “Pleasant Purgative Pellets” and you will get well through the world 
without much trouble.  The pellets prevent constipation and surplus of bile 
which lead to many different complainants.  Enclosed in glass, always fresh, 
entirely vegetable, prompt, and perfectly harmless.  Any druggist.

The best cough medicine is Piso’s Cure for Consumption.  Sold everywhere.

Your character cannot be essentially injured except by your own acts.

A “MADMAN’S” LEGACY
	“Sirs!” exclaimed a man in the homely garb of a mechanic to Richelieu, 
the prime minister of France, as he was entering his palace.  “Sire, I have 
made a discovery which shall make rich and great the nation which shall 
develop it.  Sire, will you give me an audience!” 
	Richelieu, constantly importuned, finally ordered the “madman” 
imprisoned.  Even in jail he did not desist from declaring his “delusion” 
which one day attracted the attention of a British nobleman, who heard De 
Cause’s story, and developed his discovery of steam power!
	All great discoveries ar at first derided.
	Seven years ago a man yet under middle age, enriched by a business 
which covered the continent, found himself suddenly stricken down.  When his 
physicians said recover was impossible, he used a new discovery, which, like 
all advances in science, had been opposed bitterly by the school men.  
Nevertheless, it cured him, and out of gratitude to the spreading of its 
merits before the world.  Such in brief is the history of Warner’s safe cure, 
which was won, according to the testimony of eminent persons, the most 
deserved reputation ever accorded to any known compound, and which is finally 
wining on its merits alone the approval of the most conservative 
practitioners.  Its fame now belts the globe.  [The Herald]

Lightning struck a California pear tree and cooked the fruit brown.

RESCUED FROM DEATH.  William J. Coughlin, of Somersville, Mass. says:  In the 
fall of 1876 I was taken with Bleeding of lungs followed by a severe cough.  I 
lost my appetite and flesh, and was confined to my bed.  In 1877 I was 
admitted to the Hospital.  The doctors said I had a hole in my lung as big as 
a half dollar.  At one time a report went around that I was dead.  I gave up 
hope, but a friend told me of Dr. William Hall’s Balsam for the lungs.  I got 
a bottle, when to my surprise, I commenced to feel better, and today I feel 
better than for three years past.

A declaration of war – Throwing old tin cans and other refuse in our 
neighbor’s yard.

The best Ankle Boot, and collar pads are made of zinc and leather.  Try them.

Only three years during the last fifty have the revenues of Brazil exceeded 
the expenditures.

Dr. Sage’s Catarrah Remedy surpasses all others.

Small and steady gains give competency a tranquil mind.

Red Star Trade Mark Cough Cure.  Absolutely free from opiates, emotes and 
poison.  Safe, sure, prompt.  25 cts.  At druggists and dealers.  The Charles 
A. Vogeler Co., Baltimore, Md.

St. Jacob’s Oil. Trade mark.  The Great German Remedy For pain. Cures 
rheumatism, neuralgia, backache, headache, toothache, sprains, bruises, etc.  
Price, fifty cents.  At druggists and dealer.  The Charles A. Vogeler Co., 
Baltimore Md.

Catarrh in the head is a disease of the mucous membrane.  It generally 
originates in the nasal passages and maintains its stronghold in the head.  
From this point is sends forth a poisonous virus along the membranous linings 
and through the digestive organs, corrupting the blood and producing other 
troublesome and dangerous symptoms.  Cream Balm.  Hay fever is a remedy based 
upon a correct diagnosis of this disease and can be depended upon.  50 cts. at 
druggists or by mail.  Ely Brothers, Druggists, Owego, N. Y.

Pills Free!  5,000 boxes only.  In order to convince the most skeptical of the 
excellence of Dr. O’Phelps brown’s renovating pills we will send a box free to 
any address on receipt of 10 cts in postage stamps to pay postage and 
packing.  Address J. Gibson Brown, 45 and 47 Grand Street, Jersey City, N. J. 

Salvo Cures Drunkenness and intemperance, not instantly, but effectually.  The 
only scientific antidote for the Alcohol habit and the only remedy that dares 
to send trial bottles. Highly endorsed by the medical profession and prepared 
by well known New York physician.  Send stamps for circulars and references.  
Address “Halvo Remedy” No. 3 West 14th St., New York

The Happy Hour Chair Hammock.  The most delightful hammock ever invented for 
sitting or reclining  In fancy colors and ornamental.  Our customers are 
rapturous over it. Says one:  “$50 could not get another.  Agents wanted.  Ask 
your dealer for it.  Sample shipped to any address on receipt of $2.  Write 
for circular.  C. Arnold & Sons, Honeoue, N. Y.

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